This is a strange and altogether frustrating occurence here at my work. On occasion, our DHCP server will assign random systems an invalid subnet mask, in this case 255.0.0.0. As well, the IP it ...

I have a networking situation where some tools can or can't communicate between two devices on the same LAN but differing subnet masks (it's an error, will be corrected). The question is why do some ...

Subnet Mask divides the IP address into two segments and informs the computer which part is the network bit and which one is the host bit. For example, if there is an IP address: 192.168.0.1, it will ...